Watch: Megyn Kelly Welcomes Judge Rachel Freier

Last fall, Rachel Freier, a 52-year-old grandmother, was elected as a judge, even though she is a frum Jew. In her series She’s Got Faith, Megyn Kelly welcomes the woman The New York Times has called “the Hasidic superwoman of night court.”

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she is not the first frum female judge, as the frum media likes to call her. Unless, of course, the modern orthodox female judges, of which there are quite a few, dont count as frum according to the holier-than-thou standards of the yeshivish establishment.

What she stands for is liberalism. She is really progressive, and a real feminist. What a embrassment! This is the version of Boro park that has moved far from religion. Disregarding all spirit of the law. tradition and culture is just as much part of the Torah as the law itself. We will just see if her grandchildren stay Jewish

Why are MK’s opening words about how Chassidic women don’t work outside the home? I live in a chassidic community in Eretz Yisrael and all the women work (both those with husbands also working or those learning in kollel).

I can’t even imagine how difficult it is to allow a comments section while at the same time carefully filtering out loshon hora, motzei shem rah and other violations of shmiras halashon (including my own). Judge Freier is a major baales chesed among other things, and shouldn’t be a target of gossip-mongers.